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Comment Re: GPT (Score 1) 66

Yes, that is a very old jailbreak from the time when censorship was likely just a vector database looking for keywords in inputs.

Today is basically a low level LLM that takes in the actual input, modifies it according to the instructions (this is for example why all nazis were black in initial generated images, because input gets changed to DEI version for positive requests, and "officer" was considered a positive input by that top level censorship LLM at the time). And since low level LLM is indeed a very primitive one, it gets fooled by weird things people discover.

Comment Re: GPT (Score 1) 66

This will actually give you gobbledygook. Current chatGPT mainline jailbreak relies on writing very long sentences in the input, because current gen censorship sitting on top of it seems to expect a period to begin processing your input before passing it on. And it seems to be far less capable LLM, so it chokes on long sentences that don't produce a period for a while, allowing some uncensored outputs.

Comment Fucking retards (Score 0) 36

Do you know why FBI stopped reporting Russian cyber criminals to Russian authorities?

Because it ended with said criminal being recruited by said Russian authorities. Turns out Russian domestic surveillance for this sort of talent is actually shit tier, and they were relying on Westerners telling them that "this guy from Russia is actually really good at this specific IT thing" to recruit talent for government service. For decades.

So now you literally gave fucking FSB/GRU another recruit. And in fairly mission critical piece of software too. Well fucking done morons.

Correct way you do this sort of stuff is you report it to your national intelligence authorities, and let them figure it out. Most of the old Yandex crew were some of the most pro-Western Russians you can find. Comes with the territory of living in a fairly oppressive and highly corrupt governing structure, while having good salary and what is essentially an international job. If he's into FOSS on top of it, that's basically a given that guy wants to make a change for more freedom in the world. In many cases, intelligence just arranges a "study or job opportunity abroad" for such people and they actually get to work for a much better salary doing things for us instead of Russia.

And instead you fed him to FSB/GRU. Golf fucking clap. With "security" researchers like these...

Comment Re:Nonsense, Negative Nellies (Score 1) 137

Yes, but that won't happen until we get everyone on the same page moving forward in a fault-tolerant and robust expectations paradigm. In order to action that, we need to empower and enstrengthen key team players and integrate a results-forward meritocracy with our strategic core competencies; and if we could count on you to be on board, that would be great.

Comment Merz in translation (Score -1) 58

REGNUM] "The welfare state in Germany is no longer financially sustainable. The welfare state as it exists today can no longer be financed by what we can afford economically," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told a party conference in Lower Saxony on Saturday.

But these words sounded like a memorial prayer for the socio-economic model of the FRG, which for many years inspired universal admiration.

The German leader has called for a major overhaul of the welfare system as spending continues to rise, surpassing last year's record of â47 billion.

Predictably, the Chancellor did not mention any connection between the continued financing of Ukraine and the economic shock caused by the refusal to buy cheap Russian energy resources.

Germanyâ(TM)s economy, once the EUâ(TM)s undisputed leader in high-tech exports based on the automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, has slowed sharply since 2017. Since then, Germanyâ(TM)s GDP has grown by just 1.6%, while the rest of the eurozone has grown by 9.5%. Of course, the low base effect has had a greater impact on the economic growth of other EU countries. However, the fact that Germany is among the laggards is largely due to the incompetent management of politicians who, over decades of budget surplus, have become accustomed to putting out any fire with a stream of banknotes.

Fighting global warming? Germany is ready to throw a collar on the national industries that generate the highest budget revenues for the sake of an ephemeral "green" idea.

A global refugee crisis due to war in the Middle East? Germany is ready to open its borders to millions of people with an alien socio-cultural background and, under the slogan "We can handle it!", put them on the neck of the German welfare state.

Fighting the consequences of the pandemic? The German state is generously ready to hand out several thousand euros of âoehelicopter moneyâ to all those in need, provoking rampant inflation.

War in Ukraine? Germany as the main fighter for democracy in Europe cannot remain on the sidelines.

â50 billion over three years for financial and military support for the Ukrainian regime was the moral duty of German politicians trapped in narrative thinking about the need for Ukraine to win and Russia to be defeated, which violated the dogma of a âoerules-based world order.â

And this is not to mention the voluntary and conscious rejection of Russian resources and the Russian market for high-tech products, which have long been the cornerstones of the export-oriented economy of Germany.

A CONTINUOUSLY STAGNATING ECONOMY

Germany's economy to shrink by 0.2% in 2024 after falling by 0.3% in 2023.

Industrial production fell under Olaf Scholz's "traffic light coalition" and continues to decline under the new Merz government: GDP fell by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2025.

It is almost certain that 2025 will also end in negative territory for Germany, which will be a kind of anti-record: never before in modern history has the German economy stagnated for three years in a row. And something tells me that with the current course of the red-black government, 2026 is also unlikely to be the year the negative trend is reversed for the country.

In full accordance with the well-known international joke about falling incomes and the arrangement of beds in a brothel, the change in the ruling party coalition and the Scholz-Merz reshuffle had absolutely no effect on the state of the national economy of the FRG.

Meanwhile, social security costs have risen sharply and will rise further this year as Germany's population ages and unemployment rises.

Although the majority of social assistance recipients are Germans (mostly working recipients of benefits whose salaries do not allow them to make ends meet), a significant number of them are not German citizens. Including about 1.1 million residents of Ukraine, who are equal to Germans in terms of social security.

Supporting Ukraine is too costly for Germany.

For example, from February 2022 to the end of 2024, the state budget spent â25 billion on social support for Ukrainian refugees. Another â25 billion, so necessary for the national economy, went to supply weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and financial tranches to "support the pants" of the Kyiv regime.

At the same time, Chancellor Merz, who admitted to journalists and fellow party members at the aforementioned party conference that he âoedid not think that the situation in the domestic economy was so bad,â essentially admitted his own incompetence as a statesman and exposed some of the systemic shortcomings of German-style parliamentary democracy.

How a person who does not understand the basic principles of a capitalist economy and has no relevant experience in public administration could end up as head of government of the EU's largest country remains a mystery.

ETERNAL QUESTIONS OF GERMAN DEMOCRACY Many politicians and experts have already attacked the Chancellor with harsh criticism of his statements about the inevitable abolition of the German welfare state.

The welfare state could well continue to be supported if it were organized fairly and financed on the basis of solidarity. This is where the problem lies: for decades, costs have been shifted, funding gaps have been deliberately left open, and entire professional groups have been exempted from the obligation to show solidarity.

The raw numbers seem to suggest the opposite. Yes, social spending is growing in absolute terms. But the decisive factor is its share in economic production (social payments as a percentage of GDP). For more than 30 years, this figure has remained stable at around 27%. In other words, if the welfare state grows along with the economy, it should, in theory, remain as affordable as before.

Where do the alleged âoeholesâ in the treasury come from?

For years, civil society organizations have been pointing out that billions are being wasted because the federal government is misusing mandatory social security funds to address issues that are not directly related to social issues.

In reality, these costs should be paid for from the federal budget â" that is, from taxes (for example, from export profits of national industry). Instead, they are shifted onto the shoulders of private payers.

Comment Impossible (Score 2, Interesting) 56

You must follow the laws of the land to operate in the land. This is an issue of sovereignty, and US cannot dictate otherwise.

Problems here will arise when communications are international, and laws are mutually exclusive. Which jurisdiction is the one invoked.

We may actually end up in a world where users in totalitarian nations like UK will become unable to communicate with users outside it using most popular messaging apps. Or will only be able to communicate using a special unencrypted, fully wiretapped mode recorded and sent to authorities of relevant nation, with massive warnings about this being put all over that specific communication about this.

Comment Don't look at observations, look at my guess! (Score -1, Troll) 197

These people never learn. Your model is a guess. Data science is not a form of science. It never has been, because it explicitly rejects scientific method. Including in this case, where it rejects observations that contravene the modelling, and doubles down on "but my best guess in formula I made up and ran through a computer that has never been able to guess correctly before".

And since data "scientists" predicted about fifty million of last zero catastrophic sea level rises, their last refuge is to... double down on data science. But we do it from satellite data this time (again, for n+1st time where n is a very large number) so it's different this time.

Remind me, what's Einstein's definition of insanity?

This really needs to stop, but since most of the funding for climate science is in fact funding data science which is behind all the amazing catastrophic predictions that range from desertification collapsing food production (observation: stable rising of food production by about 3% every year and planet is globally greening on average as seen from space), to storms becoming apocalyptic across the planet (observation: storms are weakening globally on average), certain species like Polar Bears dying out (observation: numbers far higher today than ever counter before, and there are now culling programs for that species as it's the last species on the planet that actively sees humans as prey), Great Barrier Reef dying out (observation: currently highest coral cover on record)... they can't stop. Turning climate science back into mostly science would destroy the funding, as there would no longer be catchy catastrophic modelling to scare people into giving money.

The problem is that data science unlike science doesn't need to care about reality. It can live in a world of mathematical abstractions of "best guess" models, which is all that data science is about. Which is why it's so good for making catastrophic predictions that never come about. And when time of observation eventually arrives, data scientist does what he did here. Shrug, say "I made my guess better, it's so good it will be correct this time, now pay me". And people do. If you were a data scientist, wouldn't you continue to just farm people who give you free money for this sort of activity?

There was a sliver of hope for those of us who think it would be better if climate cult level activity would turn back to science in the wake of reckoning of 2020 (where a lot of 2000s predictions where aimed at, and all of which proved to run hilariously hot compared to reality), but sadly that scandal went with almost no mainstream attention, and so the grift of data science pretending to be science appears to have just continued. World will totally end this time, we promise!

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